New online tool aims to sharpen thinking skills in teens with epilepsy
NCT ID NCT06608966
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study tests a web-based program called Epilepsy Journey, which includes online modules and telehealth sessions with a therapist, to help teens with epilepsy improve their executive functioning skills like planning, organization, and emotional control. 310 teens aged 13-17 will be randomly assigned to different combinations of the program or usual care. The goal is to see which parts of the program are most effective at boosting thinking skills and quality of life over 66 weeks.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- Epilepsy Journey web-based modules and telehealth sessions with a therapist
- What this could lead to
- If it works, this could provide a practical, non-drug way to help teens with epilepsy manage daily tasks and improve their quality of life.
- What could go wrong
- This is a behavioral intervention study, not a drug trial, so effects may be modest. The results depend on participant engagement and may not apply to all teens with epilepsy.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Not a phased trial
Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.
- Participants
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About 310 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Nov 2024
- Expected to finish
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Jan 2029
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
- Ages
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13 to 17 years
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: 1. Age between 13-17 years at the time of enrollment 2. Child lives at home with primary caregiver and is enrolled in school (excluding summer breaks). 3. Confirmed diagnosis of epilepsy with seizures that are categorized as either generalized or focal in onset. Epilepsy is defined as: 1) At least two unprovoked seizures occurring more than 24-hours apart; or 2) One unprovoked seizure and a probability of further seizures similar to the general recurrence risk after two unprovoked seizures. 4. Primary language of English 5. Screening Inclusion: On the parent-reported Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function-2nd edition (BRIEF-2), have executive functioning deficits defined as at least 2 subclinical (60\<T\<65) or one clinical BRIEF-2 subscale T scores (T≥65). 6. Parent/legal guardian(s) willing to sign an IRB approved informed consent 7. Participant willing to sign an Institutional Review Board approved assent Exclusion Criteria: 1. Parent or clinician-reported history in the adolescent of: 1. developmental delay (e.g., autism spectrum disorder, pervasive development disorder, history of services for developmental delay or intellectual impairment in the past 5 years, known IQ\<70) 2. severe mental illness (e.g., schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, eating disorder within the past 12 months, depression with active suicidal ideation or suicidal ideation/intent in the past 3 months) 3. prior (3-months) or current history of trauma and/or stressor-related disorders (e.g. PTSD) 4. recent or current significant medical disease (i.e., cardiovascular, hepatic, renal, gynecologic, musculoskeletal, metabolic or endocrine) 5. brain injury or brain tumor; and/or 6. epilepsy surgery 7. any other medical and/or psychological condition that takes treatment precedence over the study intervention 2. Clinician-reported diagnosis in the adolescent of 1. epilepsy whose seizures are categorized only as either unknown onset or unclassified onset (defined as insufficient information to determine onset) 2. epilepsy currently being treated at the time of enrollment by 3 or more antiseizure medications (ASMs) (excluding rescue medication use) 3. epilepsy with a history of failure to achieve seizure freedom despite adequate use of 4 different anti-seizure medications 4. a confirmed or suspected epileptic encephalopathy (e.g., electrical status epilepticus in sleep, Landau Kleffner syndrome, West syndrome) 5. a confirmed or suspected progressive and degenerative disorder (e.g., mitochondrial disorders, metabolic disorders, autoimmune disorders) 6. one or more episodes of status epilepticus within the 24 weeks prior to enrollment; and/or 7. treatable causes of seizures, for example identified etiologies including metabolic, neoplastic, or active infectious origin. 8. non-epileptic event/seizures 3. Adolescents currently on the ketogenic diet 4. Participation in a trial of an investigational drug or device within 30 days prior to screening
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Conditions
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How to take part
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The places running it
3 sites. The list below names each one and where it is.
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Childrens Hospital of Orange County
RECRUITINGOrange, California, 92868, United States
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Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
RECRUITINGCincinnati, Ohio, 45229, United States
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Medical University of South Carolina
RECRUITINGCharleston, South Carolina, 29425, United States
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